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Originally Posted by cromag
I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu on a couple of machines, but I don't know about running one alongside the other.
I'd be interested in security issues. Windows is a lot more vulnerable than Ubuntu/Linux and with Ubuntu and Windows both running I wonder if a potential threat could "cross over."
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If you need a small Linux utility from a huge number of ones running on Ubuntu, there is no need to look for a windows port, no need to download windows binary from an unknown server.
Just goto bash and type apt-get install wget and a few moments later you can use wget to download sometning.
So they are not running alongside. Windows 10 just has capability to run unmodified, standard Linux ELF binaries and has complete standard Ubuntu userland pre-installed.
This is no Linux. No GNU/Linux kernel running.
There are no additional security issues (at the moment) the system is as [in]secure as the standard Windows 10. It can be a little bit safer, because now when you need some obscure command-line utility, there is no need to download a windows version from questionable source. Just type
sudo apt-get install mc and a few moments later you have Midnight Commander available.
I alwas cringe when I have to download some small utility from softpedia or some sleazy share-ware site taht is trying to push their "downloader and installer" to help you with the download of the selected piece of shareware / freeware.
I wonder how long it will take hackers to put together a system for running GUI programs. Cygwin does have [a kind of] X-window ported. This is how you can run programs such as FontForge (compiled under Cygwin as a Windows binary) under windows.